Laurie Baker: Symphonies in brick

“Uncommon Sense: The Life & Architecture of Laurie Baker”
Filming of the Laurie Baker Film has completed. Over 100 hours of footage of over 50 buildings and interviews with over 30 architects, clients, urban planners, family, friends and unprecedented access to archival footage, photos and Baker’s writings, sketches and plans. Look out for more previews and the trailer soon here or at the official FB page! Please enjoy in 720p or 1080p HD and be sure your speakers/headphones are on for the best effect.
In you want to be notified automatically when the film is released, send an email to the following email id: vineetradhakrishnan@gmail.com with subject “Baker Mailing List” and your first and last name. Enjoy! See also the 6 minute Full Movie Featurette
The official website of Laurence Wilfred Baker (Laurie Baker), renowned British-born Indian architect and humanitarian, provides information about his life, his beliefs, his work and his architectural principles of cost-effectiveness, use of locally available materials, respect for nature, avoidance of energy-intensive materials and wastage minimization to create low-cost, beautiful, high quality buildings which long pre-empted modern concepts such as eco-friendliness and sustainable architecture. Baker’s body of work is significant both in terms of the volume and sheer diversity as well as in terms of the innovative and practical concepts he introduced. He has designed and built a dance village, computer institutes, fishermens huts, chapels and churches, factories, schools, film studios, orphanages, tourist resorts, residences, technical institutes, earthquake and tsunami resistant houses, leprosy homes, a Literacy Village, hostels, slum dwellings improvement, an ornithology centre, government buildings, a blind childrens international school and a museum. In Kerala alone, he has built over 2000 buildings. He has also done pioneering work into earthquake and tsunami proof housing. Laurie Baker was also an accomplished cartoonist, artist and innovative designer. He has been at various times of his life an anesthetist, a nurse, a missionary and an architect. He served in the Second World War in the Friends Ambulance Unit and lived for four years in isolation in remote China taking care of lepers. After a meeting with Gandhiji he was convinced to come to India, initially as the chief architect of the Mission to Lepers building leper homes throughout India. He has since lived in Pithoragarh in the foothills of the Himalayas building hospitals and schools and in the tribal areas of Vagamon in Kerala before finally settling down in the city of Trivandrum.
Source: lauriebaker.net

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